You can find the video here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/60minutes/main6067628.shtml
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > > CBS 60 Minutes - Revelations from the 2008 Campaign > > Anderson Cooper Reports On A New Book -Game Change- by Mark Halperin and > John Heilemann That Reveals New Details From The Obama And McCain > Campaigns - Cooper also interviews McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt > > From CBS: > > (According to the authors) (i)t turns out Hillary Clinton was so > confident she would become president, that a full year before the > election she had already started planning for her transition into the > White House. > > That's in a new book by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who > have also brought details to light about the Republican campaign; some > of them directly contradict what Sarah Palin wrote in her book. > > In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in > private, the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast. > > "Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is > World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the > how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She > knows nothing,'" > > Heilemann told Cooper. "A week later, after the convention was over, she > still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South > Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been > behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off > to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she > couldn't explain that." [ . . . ] > > Asked how Palin responded after McCain asked her to be his vice > president, Schmidt said, "She was very calm. Nonplussed. I said, 'You > don't seem nervous at all about this.' And she said, 'No, it's God's > plan.'" > > Watch the full interview [13 minutes runtime]: http://snipurl.com/u1pwq > [www_cbs_com] >
